Vanguard America

Vanguard America was a fascist and national socialist political movement in the United States. Vanguard America grew out of the American Vanguard movement, and it advocated the creation of an authoritarian government that would ensure that America was ruled by white supremacists, and that minority groups were oppressed. On 11-12 August 2017, it took part in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where it freely handed out shields emblazoned with its logo, and one of its supporters, James Alex Fields Jr., killed a woman and injured 19 other people in a vehicular ramming attack.

The movement claimed that America was built in the image of the Roman Republic, and that, as of 2017, democracy had failed and that it was time for a new Julius Caesar to "revive the American spirit". Vanguard America's motto was "blood and soil", a Nazi Party doctrine that supported white heterogeneity in its nation; the movement supported a world of nations ruled by "their own people", a strong social order without equality, a protectionist economy that was free from the influence of corporations "led by a rootless group of international Jews", opposition to global finance, and a traditional family structure with a hard-working father and a nurturing mother. The movement's membership requirements were that members be of at least 80% white/European heritage, no LGBT people, adulterers, or other "sexual degenerates" were allowed, no felons or criminals were allowed, no hand or neck tattoos were allowed, no addictions (i.e. pornography, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, etc.) were allowed, and members could not have opposing lifestyle choices.